Provoked: A True Story

2006

India

1h 53min

15

Directed by: Jag Mundhra

Cast: Aishwarya Rai, Miranda Richardson, Naveen Andrews

Based on Kiranjit Alhuwalia's autobiography following 'battered wife' (Rai) as she is convicted for the murder of her abusive husband (Andrews). Transporting themes of domestic violence to a British setting, with a Bollywood megastar in the lead, 'Provoked' is marred by the unusually graphic nature of the violence. Its humanistic agenda does, however, deserve an audience.